Salman Rushdie

Now who's idea was this? My honest view is that someone was having a laugh and included his name into the Honours list as a joke and was too drunk to take it off before the list was released.

Such Idiocy is record-breaking on so may levels not least the sensitivities of the feelings of a significant part of the world's population- rightly or wrongly and more importantly because the bugger does not deserve it pure and simple.

A Knighthood is not a trendy piece of bauble or acquisition and inspite of what might be termed its elitist irrelevance its at the heart of the nations cultural heritage and this has to be some kind of wind-up, at least somebody should please re-assure me thats its all part of a candid camera sketch on a large scale...no one?